Got this out of a bottle in an assorted 8 pack. This has to be the blackest beer I have ever seen. It was pure black. Even held up to the light, I could see any movement behind it. Limited head. I don't know if it was cover I was smelling, but it was strong and I didn't care for it, though not awful.

The taste of coffee is intense. Very bold and rich. Too be honest, it's a bit too intense. There's a strong sourness and the coffee aftertaste basically makes you feel like you just had a coffee. It's an interesting beer in a very short dose.

Pitch black beer with a rapidly fading head.Aroma is dominated by coffee.Taste is coffee bean,chocolate and molasses.Lightly carbonated with a pretty decent smoothness.I would recommend to try at least once.It's not something that is really going to wow you but it is still pretty good.

Reviewed on 8/15/08. Bottle. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of coffee, nuts, sweet malt. Flavor of sweet roasted malt and nuts. Extremely sweet! Not much coffee though. Weakish palate. This wasn't terrible but I won't be having it again.6/4/5/3/13 (3.1/5)

Coffee stout...those beers catch my eye and never dissapoint. I have some late-night studying to do for finals, but why not get a does of caffeine to keep me awake? On to the beer:

A large bubbly head, slightly tanned, forms on top this black beauty with hues of brown. The aroma isn;t too bad, it's solid. The coffee is most noticable, some molasses is hiding underneath, same with Cocoa-Puff like chocolate. Taste and mouthfeel...the first thing I noticed was the thin mouthfeel. The bubbly feel is fine, but the liquid is thin. There is some bittersweet coffee flavor in this beer, it just isn't robust from what I've come to expect. There isn't much stoutness here either. Very mild at best. First it's coffee with hazelnut, then off-guard the toffee flavor hits. No astringent roasted malt, no smoked flavor, no stoutness.

Overall, it's low on firepower and has an odd echoing flavor that may get in the way. Making a coffe stout wasn't a bad idea, making a beer taste this way was.

Pours a very dark brown with s decent head that fizzles away quickly. Smells of acidic coffee and dark chocolate but nothing overly expressive. Taste is of a sort of metallic coffee flavor, dark bitter chocolate, and a very slight raostiness, very little hops in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, airy, not too much carbonation. Its drinkable, just a lot better out there.

Pours black with slight hints of brown around the edges. Not much head, a thin layer of brown bubbles dissipates quickly to a wispy layer of bubbles on top and a thin ring around the glass. Not much lacing.

Smells largely of coffee, roasted malts, and light chocolate, in that order. As the beer warms the chocolate aroma gets a bit more pungent.

Tastes good. Huge coffee flavors up front with hints of roasted malt and chocolate. As the beer warms the coffee flavors wane and the chocolate takes over a bit. Lots of bitterness ends every sip.

Mouthfeel is good. It's a tad too thin, but the carbonation is solid.

Drinkability is good. I'm not sure if I could drink a lot of these as the bitterness is a bit much over time, but I had no problem finishing one.

Overall I'm glad I got a good batch; judging from other reviews the beer I had is certainly better than most. I recommend it, but caveat emptor.

A= dark brown to a black color with a 1 finger head that dissipates quickly with a little head left behind for your enjoyment, large bubbles clinging to the glass with good lacingS= Dark coffee smell with milk chocolate undertoneT= Black coffee with a mild chocolate aftertasteM= sharp and tingily in my mouth with a stickyness left behind on my lipsD= decent if you like this style, its a coffee stout for sure. I liked it for what it is but I don't think I will be trying it again, just not my style

Bottle says it was bottled in Week 1 of May. No evidence of what year, however, so I'm hoping it's fresh. . . .

A: OK, first -- on opening the cap, I got a strong "pfffft" and looked quickly to see if it was overflowing. No, but then I poured it into a pint glass and it was ALL foam. Strangest thing I'd ever seen -- I don't think I poured more than a half-inch worth of beer out of the bottle and literally 3/4 of the pint glass was foam. As I get to this point of typing the review, I've now got 1-finger of beer and 2 fingers of foam -- light, airy foam that's light-tan in color. OK, so I tried to pour some more in the glass and now I've got 2-fingers of liquid and 4 fingers of foam. At this rate it should take me a half hour to pour the beer, though that foam does settle down somewhat quickly [Just noticed the bottle now has about 2-fingers' worth of foam at the neck too]. . . . Alright, a half hour was an exaggeration, but it's been 10 minutes and I still have about 1/3 of the bottle to go. With every small pour, I immediately get a geyser of foam that rises back to the top of the glass. My patience is wearing thin.

S: Roasted malt and old coffee.

T: When I finally (15 mins later) get past the foam so I can take a sip. . . there's not much there. Something metallic at first (though this seems to dissipate over time), some roasted malt, some burnt grain and a hint of chocolate at the back of the mouth after the swallow. I don't really even get a sense of coffee, to be honest, though to some degree those burnt grains remind me of coffee that's been sitting on the burner too long.

M: Remember I said my patience was wearing thin? Well that's the perfect word to describe the mouthfeel: thin. Watery too. But plenty of carbonation (no surprise given the foam).

D: If you don't mind waiting awhile to start drinking, then I guess at least there's nothing objectionable to the taste, and since it's very light in body, I suppose you could drink this pretty quickly.,Especially if your goal is to finish it so you can move on to something worthwhile. As for me? Drain pour about 1/3 of the way in. Life is too short to drink bad beer.

Taste is dominated by the same sour, musty dark fruit as in the nose. There is something wrong here. Dark grain, and stale coffee flavor offer some bitterness.

Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied.

This is amazingly bad.... The strange, overpowering sour unripened dark fruit flavor has no place in a stout, and is something I just can't get past. Possibly the worst stout I've ever had. Just terrible.

Much like a Guinness, this pours almost black, with hints of brown around it's edges, and a slight trace of ruby. Solid one-finger head that dissipates fairly quickly, leaving a thin foamy top. Quite decent lacing.

Dark fruits and roasted coffee beans. Slight maltiness. The coffee is not as prominent as I'd hoped it would be.

Light coffee notes mingle with a hint of chocolate. Very slight malt presence. Overall, this is weak.

Thin and waterey. Unimpressive.

This could be an easy session beverage. Then again, so could water. Just not much flavor going on here to tempt me to come back.

Served in a standard pint. Looks just like cola with ruby highlights around the edges and copious tiny bubbles that adhered to the walls of the glass. Sizzling and popping off-white head dissipated immediately. No lacing present during the tasting. Nose is dark fruit, sour, malt and some cocoa. Also picked up a slight metallic character. Taste consistent with nose, but sour dark fruit overwhelms the cocoa. Not sure where the coffee comes in. Mouthfeel is watery. Some carbonation and a slightly sour/astringent finish. Not a drain pour, but one was definitely enough.

12 oz bottle. Pours a very dark brown with 1 cm of tan head that diminishes in the time it takes me to walk to the other room. I think there is some stuff suspended in the beer. Aroma of malt and a hint of coffee. Initial flavor of sweet mat, light creamy coffee comes in towards the end. No carbonation, light body, no lacing, no alcohol presence. Overall, wondering if I got a bad bottle, disappointed with this one.

Pours a dark brown with a tan creamy head that dissipates as I drink. There is some lacing down the side of the glass.

The smell is of chocolate malt, a small bit of coffee, and maybe a bit of alcohol? I'm not sure, but there is something in there that is a bit twangy. I thought there would be a stronger coffee presence.

The taste is first and foremost of coffee, and then chocolate comes to the fore. This is followed by a little bitterness at the end. I'm not sure if that comes from the remnants of coffee, or maybe there are some hops that I am noticing.

Mouthfeel is creamy, and a slight bit of carbonation.

A drinkable beer. I thought it would be more strongly coffee-flavored, but this is decent. It could also be a bit heavier seeing as how it is a stout, but I would drink a couple or possibly a few during a sitting.

Pours out a fairly deep brown -light black color, super foamy tan head, settles down somewhat quickly. Body looks more on the lighter side of stout, not quite as thick as some of the best coffee stout(mikkeller beer geek breakfast)Smells of, well, metallic is the first word that comes to mind. Light touch of coffee, whifs of cocoa malts, not really smoky. I would expect a more predominant coffee smell. Most of these styles usually have an almost chocolate-milk richness in the nose, but not so much here.Flavor is actually better than expected. More of a roasted malt sweetness, caramels, some cocoas. Not extremly complex, but more of a lighter bodied version of this style.Mouthfeel is actually on the light side of medium, low ABV goes down quite easily. If you are just beginning to try this style, give this one a shot.

A: Deep, deep brown. Close to black. Some reddish notes, but not really cola like. Head is a light brown, kinda thin, and similar to sizzling grease in the pan.

S: Roasted coffee and malts - almost the same between the two, kind of strangely. Chocolatey with some pleasant coffee notes.

T: Strange flavours... kinda metallic. The coffee is almost artificial - or cheap. Roast malts, and a slightly sour flavour (close to sour fruits?). Maybe that's a hint that there is something wrong with it, but hard to say.

M: Prickly with a bit of creaminess. Medium body. Some slippery sensations

D: Not bad... just something a little off about it. Not one I could see myself going after again, though I might to see if I just got a bad bottle.